The FIFA Soccer World Cups often happen within one month just before the national entrance exam to universities and … the exam. We find that Vietnamese men who had the university entrance exam during the FIFA Soccer World Cups tend to have … a lower proportion of having a bachelor's degree. Exposure to World Cups also reduces the probability of having a formal …

effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate … homelands in the aftermath of World War II. The econometric analyses are based on different micro data sets and employ micro …

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted education delivery around the world, with school closures affecting over 1.6 billion … there was no difference in out-of-school rates. In a smaller subsample of 15-17 year old boys, the post-COVID group had 2 …-3% lower out-of-school rates and there was no difference in literacy or years of schooling completed as compared with matched …

of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children … in elementary school one additional grade of primary education has a negative impact on enrollment rate, while the effect … on drop-outs is positive. Analogously, we also observed that an additional grade in primary education reduces the …

increased childcare needs during school closures; in Nigeria, mothers of school-age children experience the largest declines in …

school reopening. In contrast to women, the employment rate of married men with children was not affected, which hindered … progress in narrowing the employment gender gap. …

school systems, with the rationale that economies of scale will enable higher quality education to be delivered in an … educational infrastructure consolidation on educational attainment using the case of China's rural primary school closure policies … in villages' year of school closure and children's ages at closure to identify the causal impact of school closure. For …

effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College …

participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the … quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the causal effect of a school schedule reform in Chile. Combining plausibly … exogenous temporal and spatial variations in school schedules with a panel of individual mothers' employment between 2002 and …